Baseball teams

President Harry S. Truman throwing the first baseball on opening day at the game between the Washington Senators and Philadelphia Athletics. Joe Kuhel, baseball player, is at right. Vice President Alben Barkley is at far left; Bess Truman is third from left.

Rear Admiral Lewis S. Parks talks to a Little League baseball team, the CruLant Missileers, in Norfolk, Virginia. All others are unidentified.

Rear Admiral Lewis S. Parks, second from right crouching, poses with the CruLant Missileers Little League team and coaches in Norfolk, Virginia. All others are unidentified.

Photograph of a baseball team at Grenier Field, New Hampshire. These men are likely soldiers in the United States Army Air Force. Frank Pace is in the second row, fourth from the left. All others are unidentified.

Officers baseball team of the 129th Field Artillery, in France, during World War I. From an album of Lorain H. Cunningham, who served in the 129th Field Artillery during World War I and was a friend of Harry S. Truman.